Lilliput does exist!

It wasn't built on an island but on a hill in Yunnan, a province located in the south-west China. It doesn't border with its rival Blufescu, but with Kunming, the provincial capital. Its inhabitants do not live to impose what is the best way to break an egg but only toamuse the guests who come to visit them. Ladies and gentlemen, you're not in a novel by Jonathan Swift, but at the "Dwarf Empire", the only dwarf-themed park in the world.



This modern Lilliput is a community where only people smaller than 4 feets live. They do different jobs: some of them are artists, some of them are cooks or keepers, others are CEOs. All the inhabitants of the park, about 100, live in small mushroom-shaped houses, and are part of a true empire, because in the park, there are two sovereigns who the dwarves are loyal to.



The park also gained worldwide media coverage for employing many of the country's height-challenged, who traditionally have had a hard time finding work. Who lives there receive 1,000 yuan ($147) per month plus free room and board, a better remuneration than a university graduate in Kunming can expect to be offered and the employees are no younger than 18 years old.

Are you ready for a trip that will make you feel the Gulliver of our day?

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